Mississippi ex-deputies sentenced to 40 and 17 years as judge decries brutal attack on 2 Black men
LA TimesTop row from left, former Rankin County Sheriff’s Deputies Hunter Elward, Christian Dedmon and Brett McAlpin; bottom row from left, former Deputies Jeffrey Middleton and Daniel Opdyke and former Richland Police Officer Joshua Hartfield at a court appearance in August 2023. Lee said Wednesday that Dedmon carried out the most “shocking, brutal and cruel attacks imaginable” against the two Black men, Michael Corey Jenkins and Eddie Terrell Parker, and against a white man during a traffic stop weeks earlier. The judge called their actions “egregious and despicable.” They, like Opdyke and Dedmon, worked as Rankin County sheriff’s deputies at the time of the attack. The officers shouted at Jenkins and Parker to “stay out of Rankin County and go back to Jackson or ‘their side’ of the Pearl River,” court documents say.
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